“Students had cell phones on the bus, contacted their parents to tell us about it”, said Dr. Derek Arrowood, Hamilton Heights’ superintendent.
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Records also showed it took Sainfimin nine attempts each before he passed the general knowledge portion and air brake portions of the commercial driver license exam. The school bus portion took him three attempts.
The sheriff’s office says the Hamilton Heights School Corporation bus left the roadway Monday morning and a hit utility pole guide wire.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office announced Tuesday that the crash resulted from careless driving on the part of Lenoir Sainfimin, 54.
– The Hillsborough County school bus driver who veered off a road, plowed through a neighborhood guard gate, and landed a bus full of children in a nearby pond has now been cited for the crash and fired from his job.
Shaw was immediately removed from the bus as it arrived at the school. Students were treated for headaches and minor aches and pains, though none was taken out of school for the day.
In the week since the crash, FOX 13 learned Sainfimin was hired as a substitute driver for the school district in August, despite a crash and a careless driving citation from January of previous year .
Police said 53-year-old Janet Kay Shaw was driving a Hamilton Heights school bus southbound on Leonard Road just before 7:30 a.m. on September 21 when the bus drove off the roadway at approximately 40 miles per hour. The bus sustained minor damage.
The bus had minor damage, and the impact from the collision caused power lines to come down and a transformer to malfunction, resulting in a local power outage. Power in the area has since been restored.
“The employee had been a bus driver for (Hamilton Heights School Corp.) since 2001”.
“Hamilton Heights School Corporation immediately suspended an HHCS employee, bus driver Jan Shaw this morning, and will present a recommendation for her termination of employment at the next HHSC Board School Trustees meeting“. “We are thankful that parents contacted (the district) to let us know of the incident, so that the driver could be removed from the route immediately”. Police have not said what controlled substances were involved.
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Shaw is being held in the Hamilton County Jail on a $12,500 bond.
